How long would it take to create animations such as these?

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July 8, 2018
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I really admire the animation this company creates: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheInfographicsShow/videos

I know I would have to design all the poses within Adobe Illustrator and bring them into Adobe After Effects. But would it be a time saver to bring them into Adobe Animator CC first as a means of speeding up the animation?

I'm wondering approximately how long it would take to make, say, a 2 minute video.

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Andrew Yoole

Inspiring

I watched one or two of the videos you linked to, they are extremely simple in terms of the animation. Just head wobbles and occasional arm moves etc. The character and environment design is by far the hard part of these jobs. i didn't see anything that warranted the use of Adobe Animator.

There are a ton of pre-built video components like these available for not much money, if you want to quickly build something without having to design it yourself. Some samples:

https://videohive.net/item/explainer-video-toolkit-3/18812448?s_rank=2

https://videohive.net/item/explainer-world-essential-graphics-mogrt/22143852?s_rank=8

https://videohive.net/item/explainer-video-toolkit-2/9232039?s_rank=12

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A.I.1

Legend

There are a ton of pre-built video components like these available for not much money

I'm not sure they're very good value for money seeing as the prices are between $49 and $58 for each product you produce. You also wouldn't be allowed to use them where the end user was charged. So if you wanted to use a few elements from the $58 package your final video delivered to a client would need to be >$58 to make a profit (some client's wouldn't want to spend so much). It wouldn't get any cheaper by using them in more projects (ie. you couldn't buy the package then use them in multiple projects without paying the $58 fee for each project). If you wanted to use some elements from all 3 packages in 1 project you'd have to pay the price of all 3 packages for that project (again the cost couldn't get reduced by using them in more projects - if you want to be paid for those projects - due to the license prices).

So though $49 or $58 may not sound like much, $49 or $58 (or more if using elements from >1 of the packages in 1 video) would be a lot when that's the price for their use in 1 end product.

Andrew Yoole

Inspiring

i'm not accustomed to working in the price range you mention. $58 is less than I charge for one hour of work, so I don't relate to a process that might have a total production cost which is less than that.

I'm not saying that to be snobbish. Obviously we all have different clients and different pricing models, depending on who we work for and what socio-economic situations we live in. What may be expensive to you may be cheap to me, and vice versa.

But I hire people from all over the world to do work for me when I need to, and generally speaking the price is not so disparate that my post above is unreasonable. I've hired editors in Los Angeles and 3D modellers in Ukraine. Even if I hire the cheapest labour I can find from a country where wages are low, spending $50 on a template to save a few dozen hours of work is still cheap.

Templates are not a great way to work, and of course the best work is always done from scratch. But they are generally a cheap way to solve an urgent problem, especially for clients who can't afford to pay for bespoke animation.

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